C road crash in Torbay TQ1 on 2 July 1985 at 13:55 involving a car
Two cars and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on a C road in Torbay at 13:55 on Tuesday 2 July 1985. The 19-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 and the 18-year-old male rider of the motorcycle were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Jul 1985
- Tuesday, 13:55
- Vehicles
- 3
- Car and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.47303, longitude -3.53781, in the TQ1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Torquay.
Map of where the crash happened in Torbay
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198550F311178
- Council area
- Torbay
- Police force
- Devon and Cornwall
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 24 September 1984.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Torbay, 24 September 1984
At the same spotRef 198450F311973
Serious
Bicycle crash on a C road in Torbay, 30 April 1988
At the same spotRef 198850F310825
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Torbay, 4 September 1984
At the same spotRef 198450F311777
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Torbay, 23 April 2021
1 m awayRef 2021501047598
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Torbay, 18 September 1989
10 m awayRef 198950F311866
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Torbay, 23 October 1984
10 m awayRef 198450F312180
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Rider
SlightMale, aged 18, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 198550F311178 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Torbay road accident statistics for 1985.